To relieve anxiety from the too-close-to-call 2008 presidential campaign, look to another election whose conclusion is all but foregone. Events... More >>

Sage editors, wishing to impress upon cub reporters that nothing is news unless it's extraordinary, repeat a journalism adage: We never write... More >>

The next time your nosy cubiclemate says you should do more to save the planet, call her a chump. If you've been sitting on your ass while she's... More >>

In 2004, apparently unbeknownst to his employers, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Phil Matier cut a deal with Mayor Willie Brown and KRON-TV... More >>

When a public official employs treachery, pork-barrel politics, and doublespeak in the name of good policy, what is a priggish columnist to... More >>

After a decade of trying, San Francisco is still a long way from stopping the diesel smoke that spews over the city's eastern neighborhoods from... More >>

Efrain Vanegas, a reporter with La Tribuna newspaper in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, emphatically agrees when I propose the word "chaos" to describe... More >>

What with viral videos such as will.i.am's "Yes We Can" spot on Barack Obama and online jabberwocky about a supposed... More >>

If you're an environmentalist, an antipoverty activist, or a member of any other well-meaning civic group, your fellow travelers have told you to... More >>

When financial executives have to pay an extra dollar for crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, terrorists win. At least, that's one moral to be... More >>